Hezbollah holds CIA spies

Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite militant group, has identified and captured several people it accuses of being informants and spies for the Central Intelligence Agency, according to a Lebanese security official and news agency reports quoting Hezbollah officials and current and former American officials. - The Lebanese security official, who is close to Hezbollah but spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly, said that the group captured the accused spies, all thought to be Lebanese, earlier this year. Hezbollah believes that at least some of them were recruited by the United States Embassy in Beirut, he said. “It is not clear how many they are and how they were all recruited and from where,” the official said. “No one also knows anything about their fate.”